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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
IT’S A BEAR DANCE
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lazard is a pretty respected analyst for energy costs. Here’s their report from June 2024.

In the U.S., peaker gas plants that are only fired up between 5-20% of the time, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is between $110 to $230 per MWh. The levelized cost of storage for utility scale 4-hour storage ranges from $124-$226 per MWh, after subsidies. Before subsidies, that 4-hour storage costs $170-$296.

Residential storage, on the other hand, doesn’t come close. That’s $882 to $1101 before subsidies, or $653 to $855 after subsidies.

So in other words, utility scale storage has dropped down to around the same price as gas peaker plants, in the U.S., after subsidies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

It’s just that I don’t have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked

That’s the joke.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, people are working on it.

The EIA estimates that there’s about 30 GW of battery capacity in the U.S., mostly in storage systems that are designed to store about 1-4 hours worth.

That’s in comparison to 1,200 GW of generation capacity, or 400 times as much as there is storage.

It’s coming along, but the orders of magnitude difference between real-time supply and demand and our capacity for shifting some of the power just a few hours isn’t quite ready for load balancing across a whole 24 hour day, much less for days-long weather patterns or even seasonality across the year. We’re probably gonna need to see another few years of exponential growth before it starts actually making a big impact to generation activity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

I’ve heard of nigging but I’ve never heard of this.

Um I hope you mean negging
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
“Mogging” as a term originated in the early 2000’s and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000’s when the “pickup artist” community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.

Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he’s the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.

The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Some daals are spicy, and could arguably be considered British?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m a subscriber to their monthly print copy, and a lot of the stories in the print version don’t make it to the website as quickly. I’ve got the February copy on my desk with the following headlines:
- Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests: Tool That Diagnoses Disobedience to be Mailed to U.S. Households
- U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat - Wars Will No Longer Be Fought By Male Shannons, Terrys, or Carmens
- Baby Saves Affair: Illicit Relationship Rekindled by Out-of-Wedlock Birth
As far as I can tell, these articles never made it online. And they are funny. Good coffee table material.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Although i love it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In my opinion, cauliflower sucks unless it’s been roasted/fried/seared with dry high heat to the point of being brown and crispy.

If it is overcooked, the rupture of the cell walls makes that cabbage stank run out into the dish.

If it’s still raw or cooked at too low a temperature (which includes any temperature in which liquid water will exist on the surface), it’s missing the delicious browning that happens at high heat.

That means it doesn’t work as cauliflower “wings.” The breading/batter protects the cauliflower too much, and it ends up steaming itself inside. Just batter up some firm tofu instead, those are great wings.

It can work as cauliflower “steak” I guess, but that doesn’t really taste like it should fit the culinary role of a protein/main. I’m all about roasting cauliflower, and flat slices make it easy to grill or sear evenly, but that just doesn’t fit that ecological niche that a steak does.

So I generally don’t like cauliflower served with broccoli. They cook too differently to be able to actually cook them together in the same batch.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Spit out a random e-mail address and record which e-mail address was given to each IP.

The author mentions it’s a violation of GDPR to record visitors’ IP addresses. I’m not sure that’s correct, but even so, it could be possible to make a custom encoding of literally every ipv4 address through some kind of lookup table with 256 entries, and just string together 4 of those random words to represent the entire 32-bit address space, such that “correct horse battery staple” corresponds to 192.168.1.100 or whatever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Base64 encoding of a text representation of an IP address and date seems inefficient.

There are 4 octets in a ipv4 address, where each octet is one of 2^8 possible integers. The entire 32-bit ipv4 address space should therefore be possible to encode in 6 characters in base64.

Similarly, a timestamp with a precision/resolution in seconds can generally be represented by a 32-bit integer, at least up through 2038. So that can be represented by another 6 characters.

Or, if you know you’re always going to be encoding these two numbers together, you can put together a 64-bit number and encode that in base64, in just 11 characters. Maybe even use some kind of custom timestamp format that uses fewer bits and counts from a more recent epoch, as an unsigned integer (since you’re not going to have site visitors from the past), and get that down to even fewer characters.

That seems to run less risk of the email address getting cut off at some arbitrary length as it gets passed around.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The use of a “+” convention is just a convention popularized by Gmail and the other major providers. If you have your own domain, you should be able to do this with any arbitrary text schema, and encode some information in the address itself, especially if you don’t care about sending email from those aliases: set up your email service to have a catchall inbox that can further be filtered/forwarded based on other rules.

It can be cumbersome but I could see it working at getting the information you’re looking for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I got married, sitting down with the caterer and choosing between dozens of flatware types, I realized that I personally like three dimensional smoothness, with round, cylindrical handles that have some heft but not too much width. I also like cylindrical tines that don’t look like it was made from a flat sheet of metal cut and bent into shape (I prefer tines that are cylindrical, not rectangular prisms).

I also like curves along where the head meets the handle, and along the head itself. No sharp corners or edges.

I dislike ornamentation on the handle itself. I like plain, smooth handles.

I chose the forks for my wedding, and then later on in life, based on what I learned about my own preferences, I bought some flatware that fits those general principles (looks like the Sambonet Hannahs, but cheaper than that very expensive line), and replaced the ones in my house. Now I basically don’t have any forks that I don’t like.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thompson’s Teeth: The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Dental printers are a pretty standard way to make these things. There’s a whole regulatory process for testing and certifying the printers and their resins for continued contact with gums/skin/teeth for toxicity, infection, irritation, etc.

But there are still significant drawbacks to using dead synthetic stuff as a replacement for living tissue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
John Mulaney has a joke about how his parents knew Bill Clinton that way, from all going to undergrad together at Georgetown. Apparently all the women loved being escorted by Bill Clinton, and the men were all jealous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Paul Morphy, chess genius and sometimes described as best in the world in the mid-1800s:

“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You don’t need a normal distribution or statistical independence. It just requires that any given key combination remain possible.

No matter how unlikely, anything that is possible will eventually happen in an infinite time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Some infinities are bigger than others, though.

Even if you have countably infinite monkeys typing countably infinite strings for an infinite period of time, there will be an infinite number of strings that the monkeys haven’t typed, that will never be in the set of completed typed strings.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Monkey Theorem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Two new monkeys show up, and even though the infinite rooms and infinite typewriters are already occupied, you can make room for them by making all of the monkeys move over one room, and putting the new monkeys in that newly vacant room with the newly available typewriters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not just purely aesthetic, although that is a big part of it.

Some of it is actual quality not related to safety: if fruit is being processed after insects have already gone to town on it, that’s not the same quality of fruit that should’ve been used, and might actually affect the flavor.

Some of it is still safety. Freezing foods generally don’t kill bacteria, and sometimes don’t even kill molds or other fungi. Neither do packaging for shelf stable dry foods like flour, rice, cornmeal, etc. That’s why the danger in raw cookie dough comes from the flour, not the eggs.

And it’s an indirect issue, but insect contamination may also be an indicator of other dangers that aren’t solved by processing. Metal shavings or bits of rock can get into food, and having a tightly controlled process should prevent those dangers, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you don’t have the time for homemade, store bought is fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Slang term for ejaculating, usually with some projectile distance implied. Very popular term in the mid-2000’s, see Get Low by Lil Jon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot".⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Depends on how you want to use Lemmy. When using it as a link aggregator, you’d probably want to hide the stuff you’ve already clicked on. But as a discussion forum, it doesn’t hurt to go back to threads you’ve already seen to see what new comments have been made since.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t seen a new bank branch open with a drive through in a long, long time. Most banks just have multiple ATMs in the drive through, as there’s very little you’d need a teller to do compared to what the ATMs can do now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It was the fastest way to get original physical documents from one side/floor of the building to another.

When I was a kid that was the standard way that banking drive throughs worked, too. You’d drive up to the multi-lane drive through, each station would have a pneumatic tube for handing off cash or checks or receipts between the car and the teller in the window. It pretty much ended when ATMs could start handling cash and checks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Taco Bell was a cynical invention by Alexander Graham Bell to sell more Bell peppers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A dating app just for us⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Code switching is a thing.

I have my professional voice for work emails and meetings and stuff like that. I still joke, but usually it’s the kind of mild humor that can be broadcast on TV no problem. I also avoid self deprecating humor on anything actually related to the job (I can still joke about being a bad dancer or singer or athlete or whatever).

I have my parent voice when dealing with my kids’ schools, doctors, friends’ parents, etc. Most of my jokes here are relatable parent humor.

I have my casual voice when dealing with strangers outside of work: friends of friends, neighbors, etc. I joke but don’t really do anything with politics, religion, sex, profanity, etc.

And as I get to know friends, I have several distinct voices that I use, depending on our connection and their own style. I know whether they’re on my wavelength for political humor, crass/sexual humor, etc. And perhaps most importantly, the style of humor: I’ll make references to specific TV shows I know the other person loved (Simpsons, The Office, Tim Robinson, etc.), other specific interests (sports, programming, food), which style of online meme is popular with the other person, etc.

My wife has seen all of these parts of me. We still exchange funny stuff we find on the internet on our shared interests and style of humor, even if it’s only a subset of all the things we find funny.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder how much of it is horny old dudes and how much is actually lonely old dudes. These types of arrangements, somewhere in the gray area between transactional paid sex work and companionship between equal partners might not satisfy the loneliness part of the equation.